Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-02-19
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San Diego is without mail communication.
Petaluma experienced an earthquake Wed.
nesday.
Deer are scarce in the mountains around
Santa Rosa.
! Riverside Citrus Fair has been postponed
until March Sth.
Land has been forced up to very high
figure at Oroville.
Many cattle are dying on the cattle ranch
es of Victoria, Z. c.
One thousand live Arizona quail have
been received at Sacramento.
The Watsonville steam laundry machinery
is to be removed to Alameda.
A new wharf, 500 feet long, is to be built
at Lake Tahoe, near Rowlands.
Regular shipments of ore are made from
the Pennsylvania mine, Humboldt county.
The Holmes Mining Company, Esmeralda
county, will start up again in about six weeks.
The water in we'll at Santa Rosa rose
eighty -four feet in one night during the re-
cent rainstorm.
Arrangements are being made in San Diego
to bring out a colony of 100 families from the
south of Ireland.
II. S. Clunie has now control of the Gu
=. he haa
ter at Sacramento.
Keer's troop, Sixth Cavalry, has been or
dered to the scene of the recent Indian
troubles in Arizona.
J. T. Wicke, first assistant of the Hollister
public school, has been removed for cruel
treatment Of children.
F. Leach has been arrested at Cheyenne
and will be bought to Sacramento. where he
is charged with passing worthless check.
An Anaheim vineyardist was seen during
the stormy weather in rubber boots and an
umbrella, irrigating with stream OF 200
inches.
A dome stie goose was killed by gentle
man living on Cache creek, Lake county, re-
Gently, and in its crop was found large guam
tity of gold dust.
II. C. Chapman, known as the "Kansas
Kid" wanted in Reno for burglary CON-
mtted last November, was recently captured
in Los Angeles, Cal.
Much excitement prevails in the neighbor-
hood of Lakeview, Or, over the conduct
of Carter, the stage driver who assaulted a
lady passenger, and threats of lynching are
made.
A new city, named Rubio, is to be laid
out on the Todos Santos Bay, nine miles
south of Ensenada, in Lower California, by
the International Company and a syndicate
of Chicago capitalists.
Robert S. Young, miner, was buried
alive in snow slide on Prospect Mountain,
near Eureka, Tuesday evening. A rescuing
party worked to dig him out until driven off
by the fury of the storm.
A young man about eighteen years of age,
named Frank Kenyon, accidentally shot him
self in the left side while tampering with a
shotgun at Saltwater, New, Wednesday, re.
ceiving injuries which caused his death.
A gold quartz ledge, sixteen feet in width,
containing large per cent Of native gold,
has deem discovered in Napa county, just
mile over the eastern boundary line of Sono.
ma county, on direct line from Cloverdale.
E. w. James, who shot Mrs. Mary Newton
at Albina, Or, few days ago, with gun
he "didn't know was loaded" has been sur
rendered by his bondsmen, who fear the
people will lynch James for his criminal
carelessness.
At Bodie, on the 10th instant, Patrick
Lynch shot and seriously wounded Agnes
Graham, one of the demi. monde, and then
shot himself in the forehead. The woman
is likely 10 recover, and it is feared Lynch
is not fatally hurt.
The levee broke two miles below Grimes,
CAL, Monday night, large body of water
pouring through the aperture, which is near
ly fifty feet wide. Thousands of acres will
be inundated. Another break occurred OPP
posite, and is now over 900 feet wide.
While the Utah and Northern Railroad
train was Wednesday going from Salt Lake TO
Stockton, MT, it was blown off the track
near Fairfield. A car fell on Conductor Adam
Browns crushing him to death. All the pas
sengers were hurt more or less but none ser.
iously.
A two-story dwelling house on the "Marys-
vile ranch," about four miles south of Reno,
took fire last Sunday evening and was en-
tirely consumed, together with the seed for
next Summers crop. 1t was not learned
whether there was any insurance on the